If you’ve ever watched the Rachel Ray show “30 Minute Meals”, you know that many of her recipes can easily be modified to be gluten-free. There have been a few I’ve seen that are gluten-free without modifications and Rachel often mentions she uses a gluten-free chicken, beef or vegetable stock in her dishes. I think her new Stock-in-a-box products are labeled gluten-free but haven’t verified that yet since I have never seen them and the information doesn’t seem to be on the Rachel Ray website.
The other night, I realized I was overstocked on Italian red sauce, Classic Four Cheese in particular, as it was on sale at Super Target for less than $2 a jar recently. I also came across half a box of Ancient Harvest elbow pasta in the pantry and had ground turkey in the fridge. My dinner experiment didn’t begin as an effort to create a 30-minute meal – it just ended up turning out that way.
I browned the pound of ground turkey and added a little Alchemy Spice Italian Blend seasoning and kosher salt to it. While the meat was cooking, I boiled water for the pasta and cooked it for about 10 minutes as I like it more done than it gets when following the instructions on the box. When the pasta was ready, I drained it and set it aside. When the turkey was cooked through, I added most of the jar of Classico pasta sauce to it. Then I dumped the pasta into the skillet and stirred everything together and cooked for another five minutes.
The whole dish took about 25 minutes to make from start to finish. It wasn’t really a complete meal so I made green beans and a salad to round things out. The meat and pasta dish was unusually good considering I made it on the fly and we’d never tried that flavor of pasta sauce before. In fact, the Four Cheese is without question the best I’ve sampled from the Classico line. Any gluten-free pasta sauce can be used in this dish or you could make sauce from scratch, of course.
According to the company’s website, all of the red and white pasta sauces from Classico are presently gluten-free and are labeled as such. There is even a $1 off coupon you can download and print on the website right now. They retail for around $2 (or slightly more) here so using a coupon gives you about ½ off the regular retail price. Personally, I don’t download coupons from companies that ask for personal information in order to do so. Luckily, the Classico sauces are very reasonably priced and are sometimes offered at Publix on their 2-for-1 deal.
I spread a few apricots preserves over the top and sat down to enjoy my newfound love. These bagels were just as good, if not better than I had imagined. There were plenty of raisins throughout the bagel with a touch of cinnamon taste in the background. I would say that they could maybe use a little more cinnamon, but I tend to like it more than most people do, so I can always add more at home. Udi’s has another hit with these bagels!
I was incredibly surprised with how tasty these were. I have never really had much kale before or many store-bought raw veggie snacks, so I was a bit skeptical. Since I love Indian, I tried the Bombay Curry first and when I opened the package and took a look, I must admit, my first thought was of a college party snack that is not quite legal. Once I got past that, I was really impressed by these chips and the Bombay Curry flavor. I am not sure it tasted necessarily like curry to me, but the combination of the ingredients (kale, zucchini, carrot, onion, coconut, lemon juice, ginger, vegan nutritional yeast, apple cider vinegar, cilantro, spices and sea salt) made it delicious and definitely my favorite of the threesome. My second favorite was the Kool Ranch, which was interesting to me, because I am not usually a fan of ranch-flavored items, but these were yummy. The Zesty Nacho was also incredibly good, and all three make a great snack. My husband agreed and really liked them all, with the Kool Ranch being his favorite.
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